ambiguity and competence in choice under uncertainty

... Asia and Africa (including Yemen) for some analyses Annual camp-level water and sanitation variables, including measures of access to water and latrines, and nutrition variables, including receipt ... characteristics and intervention levels were examined for their association with disease incidence, and included camp size (total population and under- 5 population), indicators of adequate water and sanitation ... participated in the design, coordination and drafting of the manuscript JA assisted with the spatial mapping CH conceived of the study and participated in the design, coordination and drafting of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... making literature by studying choice under uncertainty and involving time The first three chapters are primarily experiment studies with the first two focusing on decision making in a static setting ... for two-point ambiguity, interval ambiguity and disjoint ambiguity, 29.6% exhibit the pattern of mean CE’s for two-point ambiguity being higher than that of interval ambiguity, which is in turn ... second order independence in Klibanoff, Marinacci and Mukerji (2005) has been recently discussed in Epstein (2010) and subsequently in Klibanoff, Marinacci and Mukerji (2012) 18 Disjoint Ambiguity...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:07

... science And if physics involves uncertainty, how much more uncertainty is there in medicine? Human beings are much more uncertain than atoms and electrons The practical results of statistics in medicine ... medicine are undeniable If nothing else had been achieved but two things – in the nineteenth century, the end of bleeding, purging, and leeching as a result of Louis’ studies (Louis, 1835); and in ... handling measurement bias Randomization is the best means of addressing confounding bias, and blinding the means for measurement bias While blinding is important, it is not as important as randomization...

Ngày tải lên: 24/09/2012, 09:06

... the remaining concentrations did not have any increasing or decreasing trends DISCUSSION In previous studies analyzing long-term trends regarding water quality and/ or pollutant load in rivers, ... parameters Solid line in the box is the median, lower and upper broken lines represent the 25th and 75th percentiles, and lower and upper ends of solid lines represent the 5th and 95th percentiles, ... forests and agricultural lands may have increased in recent years Because poorly managed forests and agricultural lands have adversely affected the water quality in the following way In forests...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... understanding of ambiguity is reflected mainly in polysemy and homonymy in the two following aspects: (1) Polysemy refers to a term has many different meanings; these words are often an intrinsic ... Additionally, in English grammar system, cohesive devices play an important role in understanding and interpreting English into Vietnamese Among them, ellipsis and substitution seem to appear a lot in the ... learning and teaching In recent years, together with the increasing need for learners, great efforts have been made in order to improve the quality of English teaching and learning Vocabulary and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... different income combinations that D can realize by transferring 28 Chapter Consumer Choice and Demand in Traditional and Network Markets 29 income to R (Here ID and IR represent D's and R's initial incomes, ... Consumer Choice and Demand in Traditional and Network Markets 44 If you conceded to her demand of $134,000 in annual income, her income constraint would be the thin line that is parallel to A1 H3 and ... that D is willing to sacrifice less income to increase R's income by an additional dollar And if R's income increases too much relative to D's income, envy sets in and individual R's income becomes...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:18

... a training and certification program— the only one of its kind in Washington—for interpreters and translators It incorporates a sophisticated system of qualification, including written and oral ... translating signage, forming stronger links to community leadership and key resources, and training Chinese-educated nurses in upgraded clinical skills so they could pass state licensing exams in ... academia, government, and private industry • Hiring and promoting minorities in the health care workforce • Involving community representatives in the health care organization’s planning and quality improvement...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... under excess glucose conditions They encode Ssp1 kinase (homolog of calcium–calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase) and Sds23 (an inhibitor of type 2A-related protein phosphatases including ... regulation In humans, calcium– calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase has a role in utilizing glucose through interaction with AMPdependent protein kinase [40], which is implicated in diabetes ... 3.0 mm remaining glucose) were 3.3 and 4.2 h at 30 and 26 °C, respectively In the 111 mm glucose medium, the doubling times were 2.5 and 3.5 h at 30 and 26 °C (4–8 h, 100 mm remaining glucose),...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... rational choice in the interests of health insofar as it minimises saturated fat intake, includes a sufficient variety of plant foods, and contains much fibre and a good complement of vitamins and minerals ... vampirism, and it is said that such rituals “… are involved in battle and initiation ceremonies as well as dietary and fertility mores”.17 14Drew K In: Understanding Natural Flavours (Piggot J R and ... in early winter.9 Marvin Harris states that the insects habitually eaten in China include silkworm pupae, cicadas, crickets, giant water beetles (Lethocerus indicus), stinkbugs, cockroaches and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... definition that would include some level of investments in reporting companies under certain conditions For example, certain commenters supported venture capital fund investments in reporting ... corporate earnings to repaying the debt financing, rather than investing in capital improvement or business operations.191 Some commenters agreed that distinguishing between venture capital and other ... See Proposing Release, supra note 26, at n.72 and accompanying and preceding text 48 See Comment Letter of National Association of Small Business Investment Companies and Small Business Investor...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:21

... Resolving Translation Ambiguity Only income tax evasion original English query Chinese translation by human ~ (tao21uo4) ? ~ - (suo3de2) $~, (sui4) (evasion), (earning, finance, income, taking), ... experiments, gains 62.92% of monolingual information retrieval, and 40.80% increase to the do-nothing model (selectall) 221 Concluding R e m a r k s This paper deals with translation ambiguity and target ... Chen, H.H (1998) "Integrating Query Translation and Document Translation in a CrossLanguage Information Retrieval System." Machine Translation and Information Soup, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... concept utilizing simulation and knowledge support systems The applicability of the constructed concept and tools is verified in industrial case studies both in Finland and in China In more detail ... transfer in investment projects The development of a new concept for knowledge transfer and competence development continue in 2002 in a paper machine start-up project in Finland The concept and tools ... following major sections: raw material handling, stock preparation, paper machine approach system, paper machine process including both wet and dry end processes and paper finishing The unit also includes...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... shown in A and B) and less dense (indicated with stars as shown in C and D) than that of control BSAinjected larva Further, a gap between the neurilemma and perineural cells is visible in MPLI-injected ... dopamine was increased within h of injection and reached levels 20–23 times higher than those observed in control BSA-injected larvae Brain dopamine levels were also elevated by the injection and ... the injection Dopamine incorporation into MPLI-treated larval brains The delay in reaching maximal brain dopamine level compared with maximal hemolymph dopamine level suggested that dopamine...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... Smelting and Refining Company, a subsidiary of the Anaconda Company, had a lead mill and smelter at Tooele After the war, lead-zinc mining production in Utah declined In 1958, US Smelting and International ... Dioxin from Pulp and Paper and Lead in Soil at Mining Sites A Control of Dioxins (and Other Organochlorines) from the Pulp and Paper Industry under the Clean Water Act Background The term dioxin ... coordinating role and concentrated on the risks from effluents, sludge, and occupational exposures The EPA coordinator was a Dioxin from Pulp and Paper and Lead in Soil at Mining Sites 25 Dwain Winters,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... loved ones in combat, challenges communicating) interfere with spouses’ efforts to maintain their relationships, damaging marriages that would have remained satisfying and fulfilling in the absence ... that the strains of military life hinder their efforts to maintain their relationships (e.g., by minimizing opportunities for intimacy, by preventing effective problem-solving, by creating new problems ... wives, maintaining their families and supporting their husbands in the military may be consistent with the social roles ascribed to women in society at large In contrast, civilian husbands may...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

... only uncertainty, according to Einstein, lay in our inability or lack of ingenuity in measuring the objective properties of such systems When Bohr and Einstein met at the Solvay conference in 1930, ... the uncertainty in the time interval when the shutter is open In this way Heisenberg’s uncertainty was restored and Einstein’s thought experiment was refuted 20 From Certainty to Uncertainty Increasingly ... an infinite number of fractions between and 1, an infinite number between and 2, and 3, and so on Common sense tells us that, since you can put an infinite number of fractions between any two integers,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:38

... (by different or the same individuals) and information is shared, allowing for ongoing self-informing and self-correcting activities External Environment Public mandates Internal Environment University ... involved in the transition process Prioritize within constraints and imperatives With this information in hand and a positive assessment of support within the college and university administration, ... priorities, two mandates emerged: hire more faculty, emphasizing those with training in core public health disciplines; and begin the complex academic planning and curriculum development process In 2005,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... stem form of mountain and lowland Fagus sylvatica (Dudzińska 2003), as well as studies concerning Picea abies stands which showed differences between mountain and lowland stands in respect of the ... coefficient of tapering determined in such a way is, however, dependent on tree dimensions, and differences in its value may result from differences in the rate of tree growth of individual provenances ... Differences between the mean stem tapering of individual provenances determined according to Krenn’s (1944) modified equation and the mean stem tapering determined for all empirical data J FOR SCI.,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... Albini F.A., Reinhardt E.D., Modeling ignition and burning rate of large woody natural fuels, Int J Wildland Fire (1995) 81–91 [5] Alexander M.E., Calculating and interpreting forest fire intensities, ... P., Effect of thinning and prescribed burning on crown fire severity in ponderosa pine forests, Int J Wildland Fire 11 (2002) 1–10 Rego F.C., Bunting S.C., Silva J.M., Changes in understory vegetation ... tree canopy layers in plot U Shortdistance (5–15 m) spotting was observed in RX13 and U, demanding suppression efforts to be taken in the shrubland that bordered the stand According to the crown...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22